The firm has elected incumbent Lisa Mayhew but replaced her co-chair.

Elwood, succeeding Lisa Blatt, who jumped to Williams & Connolly, said he foresees growing Arnold & Porter's appellate practice.

Goldstein, one of the top prosecutors on the special counsel's team, said he'll work to grow Cooley's East Coast litigation practice in New York and Washington.

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As the recession rattled law schools and graduates, schools were forced to get more creative, leading to changes that have endured.

Lawyers who graduated during and shortly after the Great Recession were spun sideways by layoffs and deferrals. Many are still trying to get back on track.

“The evidence of Pepper Hamilton's conduct in violation of the court's orders is so 'clear, direct, weighty and convincing' that the court reaches this conclusion with clear conviction and without hestitancy, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman of Waco wrote.

Of all the mental health traps awaiting lawyers who are headed to a foreign outpost, isolation is the most dangerous, especially for in-house counsel as they tend to be more insulated and have fewer colleagues in their legal departments than attorneys working at big firms.

ALM offers several CLEs on mental health and wellness, which is a specialty credit needed as part of CLE requirements.The course list can be found

One of the reforms raised by transparency advocates would require posting the financial disclosure statements of judges and justices online.

An unidentified search firm is alleging that Houston lawyers Patrick Gaas and Daniel Shank breached a search contract when negotiating their lateral move in 2017.

As the law is currently written, consumers have a private right of action when their non-encrypted and nonredacted information is stolen. The law also allows consumers to file a claim even if they do not show actual damage from the data breach, according to a blog post by consulting company Epiq.

Rhee is the latest big name to land at Paul Weiss in recent months. In an interview, Rhee said she is "eager to go back to representing clients. It's something that I've done for a really long time."

Lisa Bridges, who headed the company's compensation programs, said in a complaint filed in Manhattan Supreme Court that WeWork had a "dearth" of women in senior-level positions and paid women "significantly less than men."

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reversed dismissal of two cases brought over data breaches of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

A Washington-based theater is planning a reading of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the 2016 presidential election.

Four female former associates have now put their names to claims of discrimination against the firm. The latest is the first to have worked in the firm's New York office.

The firm's emphasis on emerging companies and the blockchain industry has been a major source of growth for its New York office.

Jeffrey Zimmerman, top lawyer at the rental car giant from 2007 to 2014, argued in a motion to dismiss filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey on Thursday that his former employer failed to adequately allege that its ex-top lawyer engaged in gross negligence and misconduct that forced the company to restate its financial statements in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Law.com Supreme Court correspondent Tony Mauro talks with Kannon Shanmugam about his lateral move to Paul Weiss, what it's like to argue before Justice Kavanaugh, and why it's been a 'meat and potatoes' term.